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rheology en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ɹiːˈɒlədʒi/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Coined by American scientist Eugene C. Bingham in 1920, following a suggestion by a colleague, Markus Reiner; inspired by aphorism πάντα ῥεῖ (pánta rheî, “everything flows”) by Simplicius of Cilicia. Formed from Ancient Greek ῥέω (rhéō, “flow”) + -logy (“study of”, suffix ultimately from Ancient Greek). See also rheo-.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) The branch of physics that studies the deformation and flow of matter.
    • Curious as to whether other had explored the connection between Oreos and rheology, Owens found mention of a 2016 Princeton University study in which physicists first reported that indeed, when twisting Oreos by hand, the cream almost always came off on one wafer. 2022 April 19, Jennifer Chu, “MIT Engineers Introduce the Oreometer”, in MIT News:

Forms

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rheologies Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

microrheology · nanorheology · psychorheology · chemorheology · rheologist · hemorheology · biorheology · macrorheology · rheological · electrorheology

Relateds

diarrhea · rheometry · rheometer · rheometric · rheogoniometer

Translations (18)

es reología (physics of the deformation and flow of matter) · de Rheologie (physics of the deformation and flow of matter) · is flotfræði (physics of the deformation and flow of matter) · vi lưu biến học (physics of the deformation and flow of matter) · fi reologia (physics of the deformation and flow of matter) · nl reologie (physics of the deformation and flow of matter) · ga sreabheolaíocht (physics of the deformation and flow of matter) · ro reologie (physics of the deformation and flow of matter) · pt reologia (physics of the deformation and flow of matter) · fr rhéologie (physics of the deformation and flow of matter) · ca reologia (physics of the deformation and flow of matter) · tl paladaluyan (physics of the deformation and flow of matter) · cmn 流變學 /流变学 (physics of the deformation and flow of matter) · ta சடப்பாயவியல் (physics of the deformation and flow of matter) · it reologia (physics of the deformation and flow of matter) · de Fließkunde (physics of the deformation and flow of matter) · ru реоло́гия (physics of the deformation and flow of matter) · ga réa-eolaíocht (physics of the deformation and flow of matter)

wikipedia: Simplicius of Cilicia · wikipedia: Markus Reiner · wikipedia: Panta rhei (Heraclitus)